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Yeh, and there where a lot of good Germans. Too bad about the Nazis. But that is the nature of large, warm, fuzy organizations. You're rice bowl is full untill the stuff hits the fan, and then it's a crying game about how your pencils were always sharp and your desk clean.

I worked for a Big 6 firm when they were Big 6 ... now they are part of Big 5 ... about 1/2 were great people ... and the others ... well ... AA's shenanigans doesn't surprise me at all ... and it's happening in other firms as well ... I'm glad AA is going down for this ... but I do feel sorry for the *good* people that work there ... get ready ... we'll be seeing more of this type of stuff from other firms ... it's only a matter of time ...

it's a conflict of interest to have the auditor paid directly from the company they are auditing ... obviously ... a serious conflict of interest ... what the correct solution is, I'm not sure ... but I'm sure there's much more monkey business of potentially equal magnitude ...